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PAUL EDWARD RUDEEN JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 16, 1938 – August 24, 1965
Service recordPaul Edward Rudeen JR, of Hickory, North Carolina, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 127
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Air Traffic Control Officer (I) (7301)
- Born
- September 16, 1938
- Home of record
- Hickory, North Carolina (Catawba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Incident
- Airplane Crash Hong Kong To Danang Vs
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in South Vietnam while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The record gives the date and branch of service but not the exact place.
Read the history
Also on Panel 5E, Line 127
- J H ALEXANDERPlatoon Sergeant · March 6, 1966
- BOBBY JOE MARSHPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
- CYRUS SWAN ROBERTS IVFirst Lieutenant · March 6, 1966
- MARIO YBARRAPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
- CHARLES LOUIS ZOOGPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
From Hickory
- LARRY EUGENE FOWLERLance Corporal · February 22, 1967
- JAMES LEE ROSSLance Corporal · February 28, 1967
- MCCLURE THACKERSONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- RONALD LEE CROOKSCorporal · June 7, 1967
- STEVE MONROE SUMMERLINLance Corporal · October 26, 1967
- JERRY W BRANNOCKPrivate First Class · December 11, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD DEESE JRCorporal · February 26, 1968
- EDWIN DOUGLAS CONNELLSergeant · April 8, 1968
- EUGENE HARRISPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- COYTE DAVID CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.